City Directories and History: “The Town of Hartsville was named for Captain Thomas Edwards Hart, a pioneer settler in that community, who moved there about the year 1820.
Capt. Hart was bom at Society Hill, married Hannah Lide of the Mechanicsville section of the county, then moved to a plantation home on a high bluff overlooking Black Creek, at the place now known as Kalmia Gardens. The Hart residence is still standing and has been restored; the spacious grounds also have been landscaped into a beautiful garden.
In naming the magnificent lake formed by damming the clear waters of Black Creek, Prestwood Lake, the Hartsville people have preserved an old family name, now extinct, Prestwood. A family of that name lived in that community many years ago. Hartsville received its first charter December 11, 1891.”
Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC
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IMAGE GALLERY via photographer Bill Segars – 2010